The vast majority of newspapers in the U.S. consider newspaper delivery personnel to be independent contractors – not employees. This means that the newspapers do not have to pay the carriers any employee benefits. But when 6000 current and former carriers from the Orange County (California) Register decided to sue the paper for past employee…
According to a recent article on CNN.com Wal-Mart gender pay lawsuit heads to trial, more than a million former and current employees of Wal-Mart have formed a class action against the super retailer, alleging gender bias against employees in both pay and promotions. In April of 2010 a San Francisco based US court of appeals…
The catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill that started after a rig explosion in April of 2010 is now widely regarded as the largest oil spill in history. The owner and principal operator of the oil field where the rupture occurred is BP (formerly British Petroleum), which was leasing the rig in question from Transocean,…
The California law firm of Callahan & Blaine recently filed a class action lawsuit in Orange County Superior Court against some of California’s largest distributors and retailers of Extra Virgin Olive Oil. A comprehensive study by the UC Davis Olive Center at the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science at the University of…
A massive fire caused by a broken 24-inch gas main has destroyed over 50 homes and has killed at least 6 innocent victims; an unknown number of people have also been injured. Motorists from Interstate 280 were able to witness the explosion and subsequent fire, saying that the flames reached sixty feet in the air as much as…
The Federal Court clarified the difference between independent contractors and employees in a key decision: Dalton v. Lee Publications, Inc. The Court found that the newspaper carriers can bring a class action lawsuit against the San Diego newspaper, The North County Times, as employees despite their having signed independent contractor agreements. The Court based its…
Nineteen year old Alma Lopez was crossing Vineyard Avenue at Simon Way in Oxnard California with her two young children in a stroller when she became the victim of a pedestrian hit and run accident. Mehran Khamseh, a tow truck driver from Santa Barbara, turned left onto Vineyard Avenue, knocking Lopez over and dragging the…
Callahan & Blaine, California’s premier litigation firm, announced a major victory against the insurance industry’s new attitude of “deny the claim” and “pay after sued” policy. In a unanimous decision, the Court of Appeal in San Diego, California, agreed with Callahan & Blaine that Prudential Insurance could be held liable for the damage it caused…
Callahan & Blaine, California’s premier litigation firm, has been widely recognized by legal publications and in the mainstream media as one of the premier catastrophic personal injury firms in Orange County, California and in the United States. In the last five years alone the firm has obtained over $1.2 billion in verdicts and settlements for their…
Callahan & Blaine, California’s premier litigation firm, is pleased to announce that founding partner Daniel J. Callahan has been featured as one of Orange County’s most “Buzzworthy Barristers” by Orange Coast Magazine. Read the full article Callahan was selected for the honor based on his record-setting performance in the recent Dana Point joggers hit and…
